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YEAH BOYYYYY

42 books in 12 months. I want to thank my parents, my friends, my girlfriend, Thor, but mostly my 2 Kindles. NO DON'T PLAY THE MUSIC

Man, I barely got through 6 this year. Stupid video games.

Holy crap. Calleja. He's alive. ALIVE!

Damn, now I kind of wish I'd kept track of what I read this year. I can't remember for the life of me what I was reading before June.

Pretty cool, Calleja.

I'm trying to think how many I made it through this year. Not that many, I know.
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
The Zombie Autopsies
A Game of Thrones
A Clash of Kings
A Storm of Swords
A Feast for Crows
A Dance With Dragons
The Gunslinger
The Drawing of the Three
Zombies: The Recent Dead
The Name of the Wind
The Hobbit
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
The Late Shift
The War for Late Night
15? I feel like I'm missing one though.

Books-wise, I've probably read about a dozen or a little more. That's sadly including school.

If we were including comics/graphic novels? Oh fuck...
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Also, my New Years resolution is to keep track of books I've read for next year's list.

I recommends Goodreads for that. It's a bit of a pain having to update your progress by "hand", but it's well worth ti for the stats and eventual recommendations based on your book ratings.

Girlfriend? That's amusing.

I have read a few things, but not that many. I have to pick and choose what I buy now.

Shegokigo said:

Girlfriend? That's amusing.

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After he got dumped by those bald cougars, he and Morphine got together.

Shegokigo said:

Girlfriend? That's amusing.

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He probably met her at Starbucks.

Quotemander Prime said:

After he got dumped by those bald cougars, he and Morphine got together.

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They broke up later.

Yeah, I'm not with Morphine anymore, but I am (strangely) monogamous.

What the hell are books?

Welp, I signed up for GoodReads. Seems like Netflix as far as its rating and recommendations system, only without the free movies. Neat. I'm in.

I read 0 books this year but so many comics.

I am a manchild.

Gusto said:

I read 0 books this year but so many comics.

I am a manchild.

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I read novels.... based on Warcraft and lots of comics. I'm a Womanchild.

42 children's books don't count.

Mathias said:

42 children's books don't count.

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Shiiiit. If I counted all the books I read ot Jet this year I would have surpassed this goal LONG ago.

Well, at least we know where Calleja's been now.

Reading 3.5 books a month gets in the way of polyamory and posting funny pictures on the internet.

I'd just assumed he was abducted by a team of rogue stewardesses.

Maybe "books" is code for 42 stewardesses and this is a coded cry for help.

I don't know if I could exclude myself from this or not. I had a british literature class this year, so I read a LOT of books. I guess that would count.

Though, I tell you I was super pumped when Lord of the Flies was listed as the last book of the semester. I love that novel.

ThatNickGuy said:

Maybe "books" is code for 42 stewardesses and this is a coded cry for help.

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So if "books" is 42 stewardesses, and he was taken by 42 books, that means Calleja was abducted by 1764 stewardesses.

What, was he kidnapped by the student body of the National Stewardess Academy?

That's a lot of frequent-flier miles.

Officer_Charon said:

That's a lot of frequent-flier miles.

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Bow-chicka-wow-wow

I too, have signed up for Goodreads.

I have never been with a stewardess, I'm afraid. I did hook up with a waitress in Cancun, though, does that count? You know how much hot waitresses in Cancun during tourist season get hit on?

Also.. fuck you all, I'm in a serious monogamous relationship with a real, actual woman. You can even see her if you're one of my FB friends. There's even, gulp, talk of moving in together in Mexico City.

Sticking to the thread's theme, though... My new Kindle touch comes with special offers, and one of them gave me an Audible version of Rob Lowe's autobiography, read by himself. I got hooked with it, the guy not only reads it, but he makes DEAD ON impressions of all the famous people he knows. The dude grew up with Emilio Estevez and Charle and Martin Sheen and pretty soon was friends with Downey Jr and Demi Moore and Jodie Foster and shit. It's a fun read..err, listen.

But I want an actual book book. I'm about to start either The Dark Tower series with The Gunslinger or the Hunger Games trilogy. What do you guys think?
Also, if anyone's interested in the 42 books I read:

http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/4062677-fernando-calleja?read_at=2011

That link should work.

Calleja said:

But I want an actual book book. I'm about to start either The Dark Tower series with The Gunslinger or the Hunger Games trilogy. What do you guys think?
Also, if anyone's interested in the 42 books I read:

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I've only read the Gunslinger and the Drawing of the Three. The Gunslinger was okay, the Drawing of the Three got really weird, and from what I'm told, the series as a whole kind of lacks focus and just gets ridiculous towards the end. Personally, I wouldn't recommend even reading past the first.

Calleja said:

But I want an actual book book. I'm about to start either The Dark Tower series with The Gunslinger or the Hunger Games trilogy. What do you guys think?

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I haven't read The Hunger Games yet because I haven't read it or its sequels, but I got through the first two books and one third of number three from the Dark Tower series, and it's exactly as checkeredhat says. Nothing really special, and you can really tell that the author had no idea where he was going or what he was doing. So I'd say if you're choosing between those, check out The Hunger Games because Dark Tower is frustrating. That said, you could still give it a shot, but people I know who love the Dark Tower series say that the second book is probably the best of it, and if you're not into it by the time you finish that one, you might as well stop.

Well done to you, sir! And thanks for the inspiration. I'm now on goodreads and spent 2 hours last night reading/compiling a list of things to read. What was your favorite read last year?

Do manga count as books?

Don't see why not... I entered Chew, The Walking Dead, and Watchmen successfully.

I used to read a new book about every 10 days. Now it can take me 2-3 months to finish one.
I miss not having responsibilities.

--Patrick

I've started listening to audio-books while in the car. It's not the same at all, but I at least get to feel like I'm multi-tasking.

My favorite book of the 42? That's a toughie... I got REALLY REALLY into the Dresden Files series, so if we count all 12 (plus short story compilation) books as one, I'd have to go with that one. I miss Harry Dresden.

Apart from that.. well, Game of Thrones is really awesome. It gets a bit tedious with the sequels, though, it's worth it, methinks, but stilll.. Martin has GOT to stop describing every little detail for pages, especially if HE BURNS THE ENTIRE THING 2 PAGES LATER. Especially with food... the guy describes like every single meal, with detail, you can see why the fucker's fat. Awesome books, though.

Although you'll notice I also read all 11 books in the "entire" saga of Asimov's Foundation. Every human being should read these.

Damn, it's hard to decide.

I know, I got so hungry reading those books.
Seriously. I often sat down to read them with a plate of bread, cheese and apples (and some fiery dornish peppers and lemon cakes- not really)
I ACTUALLY bought fresh bread, cut off the end and dug a trenchen and filled it with soup JUST because of one of those books.